Carolyn Haines Books in Order

Reporter Ronnie Sheffield investigates a controversial Mississippi bill and threats against its sponsor, Senator Jeff Stuart. His romantic attention complicates her reporting, while a disastrous weekend at his estate reveals that Ronnie herself is in danger.

Ann Tate’s hopes for her horse-breeding farm improve when Matt Roper arrives with his mare. Then her prized stallion becomes dangerously unpredictable, and a death convinces Ann that someone is deliberately trying to destroy her livelihood.

A mysterious video suggests that a prize stallion missing for three years may still be alive. Trainer Dawn Markey follows the trail between racetracks, joining forces with horse breeder Luke O’Neil as the search becomes dangerous.

Stockbroker Celeste Coolridge joins a Maya excavation and attracts villagers’ claims of a mystical connection. When a man is mauled to death, she becomes a suspect, while archaeologist Mark Grayson searches for a legendary ruby.

Miranda Conner discovers a secret while trying to preserve an Appalachian river, putting her life at risk. Depending on the enigmatic Tom Wilkes, she faces a wilderness where corrupt lawmen and old grudges threaten her survival.

Ginger Peko’s resort cook-off turns deadly when a competing chef eats poisoned cake. Suspecting culinary revenge or a critic’s grudge, she continues the event while rekindling her relationship with Timothy Spicer and searching for answers.

Emma Devlin’s murdered husband appears as a ghost, claiming betrayal by loved ones. Searching for answers at Ravenwood mansion, she encounters Confederate cavalry officer Nathan Cates, whose offer of protection carries an unsettling supernatural complication.

Police psychologist Lauren Sanders suspects charming David Malachi of being Natchez’s Robin Hood burglar. When a prominent resident is killed with a crossbow, she joins David to investigate old scandals and prove his innocence of murder.

Riding instructor Connor Tremaine marries charismatic politician Clay Sumner after returning east. Her apparently promising new life grows unsettling as she questions his household and begins to suspect he knows more about his first wife’s death.

Dr. Michael Raybin finds a badly burned man washed ashore on a storm-battered island and honors his desperate demand for secrecy. The arrival of Elizabeth Campbell, searching for her missing brother, complicates the doctor’s promise.

In rural Mississippi during the 1960s, horse-loving teenager Bekkah Rich suspects a nearby religious cult when her friend’s baby sister disappears. She and Alice investigate the abduction, confronting dangers beyond their expectations for the summer.

Teenager Bekkah Rich’s Mississippi summer changes when her best friend’s baby sister is abducted. Suspecting members of a nearby religious cult, Bekkah and Alice investigate amid unsettling local legends, new neighbors, and a community’s hidden tensions.

Young Mattie Mills arrives in religious Jexville as the barber’s mail-order bride and befriends the lively McVay family. As marriage disappoints her, involvement in others’ lives and attraction to another man deepen her growing discontent.

Half-Lakota rancher Shadoe Deerman clashes with her childhood sweetheart Hank Emrich, a wildlife agent bringing wolves back to Montana. Their renewed attraction unfolds amid threats to her cherished land and someone’s hidden plans against them.

Facing the loss of her Mississippi plantation, Sarah Booth Delaney kidnaps a friend’s dog for ransom. Her desperate scheme leads to private investigation, an old murder case, and dangerous questions about an attractive potential killer.

At a dinner party, writer Lawrence Ambrose announces a memoir that will expose Zinnia’s darkest secrets. When a corpse appears and the manuscript disappears, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney probes the guests’ motives and buried histories.

Anna Red Shoes confronts author Jeremy Masterson over lies about her Apache family, then disappears after their unexpected attraction. Jeremy pursues her, warning that they are both in danger, as hostility gives way to complicated desire.

Lacy Wade is hired to find elusive Turner McLeod, a man associated with mysterious fires. Investigating his secrets brings unexpected attraction, but a hidden enemy threatens to turn their growing connection into another source of danger.

Sarah Booth Delaney doubts her friend Eulalee’s confession to killing her violent husband. Suspecting she is protecting her teenage daughter, Sarah investigates the family and horse-racing community while facing a killer preparing to strike again.

Rebecca Barrett arrives at Mississippi’s Blackthorn estate to oversee an archaeological excavation, but mysterious cries from an unseen baby divert her attention. As her search draws danger, she seeks help from enigmatic sheriff Dru Colson.

Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to clear guitarist Scott Hampton of murdering his mentor, blues pianist Ivory Keys. Their prison friendship and Scott’s abandoned racist beliefs complicate a case that threatens Sunflower County’s fragile racial harmony.

This biography follows Peggy Morgan and her mother Inez through poverty, abusive marriages, and knowledge of notorious racial killings. Their intertwined lives reveal the personal burden of witnessing violence and the difficult choices involved in speaking out.

Aurelia Agee inherits Blackthorn estate in Natchez, where anonymous threats and eerie cries greet her arrival. Mysterious Marcus McNeese warns her away, but old hatreds and the legend of a protective ghost rider complicate their attraction.

Sarah Booth Delaney investigates healer Doreen Mallory, accused of killing her infant daughter with sleeping pills. Doubting the official case, she examines Doreen’s guarded relationships with powerful men who may have reasons to conceal the truth.

After scandal-writing Quentin McGee is found suffocated in a cotton field, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to defend the suspected lover. The victim’s powerful enemies, impending inheritance, and planned second exposé broaden a dangerous investigation.

Reporter Dixon Sinclair returns to Jexville to run its newspaper and confront her father’s murder. Two teenage girls’ brutal deaths and attacks on a Catholic church draw her into an investigation of religious rituals and community prejudice.

In 1952 Mississippi, beautician Jade Dupree investigates after her estranged half sister is attacked and her niece kidnapped. Working with white deputy Frank Kimble, she confronts family secrets, racial barriers, and an attraction that increases the danger.

War veteran and sheriff’s deputy Raymond investigates a brutal murder in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish. Although feverish Adele Hebert confesses, he doubts her guilt while frightened locals believe she is possessed by a legendary Cajun shapeshifter.

A touring production brings Sarah Booth Delaney’s former lover Graf back to Zinnia, but his costar dies from poisoned lipstick. With evidence pointing toward Sarah, she must investigate theatrical rivalries to save her reputation and freedom.

Reporter Carson Lynch investigates a mass grave containing five women buried in bridal veils and missing ring fingers. When new bodies appear, she must determine whether Biloxi faces a copycat murderer or a long-dormant serial killer.

Sarah Booth Delaney pursues an acting career and reunites onscreen with Graf in a remake of Body Heat. Filming in Costa Rica brings rivalries, mysterious accidents, and damaging publicity that threaten her long-awaited chance at stardom.

Edited by Carolyn Haines, this anthology of short fiction draws on the music, landscape, and storytelling traditions of the Mississippi Delta. Its characters face betrayal, heartbreak, revenge, dangerous bargains, and occasional chances for redemption.

Sarah Booth Delaney leaves Hollywood when a mysterious illness threatens her best friend’s husband and other Mississippi residents. With quarantines rising and cotton crops under attack, she investigates a crisis that scientists cannot readily explain.

A spa and cooking-school getaway offers Sarah Booth Delaney a respite from personal grief until a cook-off contestant is poisoned. Hired by the prime suspect, Sarah and Tinkie investigate the fierce competition for a spokesperson’s job.

Wealthy sisters Monica and Eleanor Levert hire Sarah Booth and Tinkie to investigate a missing necklace, raising suspicions of insurance fraud. When Monica disappears, the detectives uncover a darker family history and a potentially deadly ransom demand.

Riding instructor Connor Tremaine returns to Mobile and marries politician Clay Sumner, seemingly gaining an ideal life. Unease about his home and children leads her to question what he knows about the death of his first wife.

South Dakota deputy Rachel Redmond investigates mutilated hunters’ bodies amid disputes over a highway crossing Sioux wilderness. Legends of a skin-stealing warrior and an animal-rights group’s claims complicate her search as tensions threaten the county.

Sarah Booth Delaney goes undercover as a maid at a haunted estate to investigate a psychic targeting wealthy clients. Suspected fraud becomes more dangerous when she discovers bodies among guests preparing to commune with the dead.

Professor Olive Twist claims a mysterious preserved corpse can expose scandalous links to Zinnia’s prominent families. Hired by alarmed society women, Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the scholar’s agenda, then finds a modern murder complicating the historical mystery.

Sarah Booth Delaney takes her injured fiancé to Dauphin Island for a restorative holiday. A guide’s request to revisit her treasure-hunting father’s murder draws Sarah into a case involving pirate lore, hidden wealth, and disputed guilt.

Sarah Booth Delaney hopes to help her fiancé recover peacefully from a leg wound. An ex-porn star’s claim that she is being stalked interrupts those plans, plunging Sarah into an investigation full of uncertain motives.

Sarah Booth attends a Halloween ball in New Orleans to distract herself from a broken engagement. Threats against her old flame's blues band become alarmingly real when a bartender is killed, sending her searching for the person behind the violence.

A visiting Italian investor disappears during a Delta town's Christmas celebrations after flirting with Tinkie Richmond. Suspicion falls on Tinkie's jealous husband, and Sarah Booth must investigate a body seen in the bayou before her friends face serious charges.

Reluctantly attending a health and lifestyle lecture, Sarah Booth finds herself investigating a body discovered in the venue's kitchen. Working with Tinkie, she uncovers unexpected complications surrounding the visiting activist whose seminar has brought murder to Zinnia.

Sarah Booth hopes to enjoy Christmas despite her broken engagement, but a pastor's wife arrives with an urgent request. Investigating the boys blamed for disrupting last year's Christmas pageant may be the only way to keep this year's celebration safe.

A newborn appears on Sarah Booth's porch with blood beneath the basket and a vehicle speeding away. She and Tinkie search for the child's mother, increasingly suspecting that the woman was fleeing a danger that may now threaten them too.

Widowed after World War I, Raissa James visits her uncle's Alabama estate and hopes for a fresh start. A guest's death and a Confederate soldier's ghost draw her and medium Reginald Proctor into the house's history and its closely guarded secrets.

Tinkie's elegant Valentine's costume party turns disastrous when the guests are robbed and the expected Cupid fails to appear. Sarah Booth and Tinkie investigate his strange replacement, discovering that the mystery involves more danger than the missing valuables suggest.

When a serial killer reaches Wetumpka, black cat Trouble applies lessons learned from his detective father and Sherlock Holmes. An attack on bookseller Tammy Lynn makes the case personal, bringing Trouble and a grieving deputy together to protect her.

A film crew hires Sarah Booth to verify a bestselling writer's memoir about her mother's and brother's deaths. Returning to the old tragedy reveals discrepancies, and someone determined to preserve its secrets makes the investigation increasingly dangerous.

Zelda Fitzgerald asks Raissa and Reginald to help a friend suffering violent fits and apparent delusions. Their investigation reveals other young women facing similar disturbances, raising questions about possession and the secrets that might free a patient confined in an asylum.

At isolated Waverley Mansion, an entity covets Raissa's ability to communicate with the dead. She and Reginald must protect a young girl while investigating the house's troubled history and a reputed Union spy whose influence may still threaten the living.

Christmas plans vanish when Cece receives a ransom demand for her pregnant young relative, Eve. Sarah Booth and Tinkie race to locate the missing teenager, confronting estranged family relationships and a kidnapper who threatens to turn the holiday deadly.

Three sisters arrive in Zinnia intending to open a Wiccan boarding school on property desired by developers. Their plans stir hostility, and mounting deaths draw Sarah Booth into a mystery where local interests and suspicions about witchcraft collide.

Jitty asks Sarah Booth to stop her dead husband from taking revenge that could cost him his place in the afterlife. On Halloween, Sarah Booth ventures to a cursed plantation, facing its ghosts and a confrontation between past suffering and living descendants.

In 1920s Alabama, Elizabeth claims her unusual dreams prove a man accused of murder is innocent. Raissa and Reginald try to help her before she is condemned too, investigating whether her supposed gift comes from a benevolent or dangerous source.

After a ritualistic murder at a Native American archaeological site, the accused director hires Sarah Booth to clear his name. Further violence, rumors of a curse, and hints of a hidden prize complicate her search among the dig's competing interests.

Tutor Mimi grows suspicious after an amnesiac foster teenager joins the Henderson family and tragedies begin. A strange childlike presence stalks the grounds, leaving Mimi struggling to protect her pupils while uncertainty surrounds both the newcomer and her own perceptions.

Graduate student Aine plans to challenge Thoreau's history using a family diary, but a mysterious girl begins following her near Walden Pond. When local tragedy makes Aine a suspect, she must examine her family's legacy and her grasp on reality.

Sarah Booth and her friends travel to Columbus for Christmas shopping and celebrations, only to encounter a series of potentially fatal accidents. She and Tinkie investigate whether the festive mishaps conceal deliberate attacks before another holiday event turns dangerous.

Sarah Booth finds an abandoned toddler in the woods with a note claiming the child is cursed. Searching for her family leads Sarah and Coleman toward Mississippi River communities, where the girl's unusual qualities and a devastated town deepen the mystery.

An Easter trip with Tinkie and Cece takes Sarah Booth to a garden recreating the Holy Land. Discovering a murdered lawyer during sunrise celebrations interrupts their holiday, leaving her to sort through the enemies his underhanded dealings have created.

A visiting feminist professor attracts admiration and threats before a notorious domestic abuser is found dead. Sarah Booth investigates at the professor's request, but links to earlier deaths complicate her efforts to decide whether her client is victim or killer.

Tommie inherits an Alabama manor she hopes to convert into an inn, but rumors of a curse threaten her plans. Strange events following the former owner's suicide draw groundskeeper Harley and detective cat Trouble into investigating the estate's secrets.

Sarah Booth and Tinkie visit Bay St. Louis to judge a Christmas tree contest alongside two feuding authors. When one writer and her assistant disappear, the rival hires them to investigate a mystery involving bloodstains and stories of Al Capone's hidden fortune.

A mother asks Sarah Booth to find her journalist daughter, who vanished while investigating recurring Halloween disappearances in New Orleans. Suspicions about an influential cult lead the detective into a dangerous world of secretive leaders and possible human sacrifice.

Sarah Booth and Tinkie reopen the disappearance of an heiress and her friend after seven years. An inheritance, a suspicious husband, and unsettling clues challenge the assumption that the missing women simply chose lives abroad.

A stolen jeweled belt draws Sarah Booth and Tinkie into an Elvis festival at Christmas. When a witness dies and impersonators complicate the investigation, the detectives must untangle the theft before suspicion turns against them.

A wealthy political heir disappears while filming a movie about his family’s role in the 1927 flood. Sarah Booth and Tinkie investigate after a severed foot appears in the river, questioning whether a shark conceals human wrongdoing.

Animal activist Tilly Lawson asks Sarah Booth and Tinkie to find her stolen dog. Their investigation leads through suspicious breeders and possible dogfighting connections, while a rival detective agency and threats to their own pets complicate the search.

New information makes Sarah Booth question whether her parents’ fatal car crash was murder. Investigating the secrets people she trusts have kept, she faces an intensely personal mystery alongside holiday developments involving an unclaimed mansion.

Sarah Booth investigates a missing farmer facing foreclosure while an apparition appears near the Tallahatchie Bridge. A secret affair and a mysterious buyer targeting vulnerable farms connect local rumors to dangers threatening the community.

Reporter Jackie Muldoon investigates a stolen corpse while secretly making moonshine and seeking her father’s killer. The dead girl’s connection to a radio preacher draws Jackie toward a dangerous story that threatens her family’s remaining livelihood.